Science news articles about 'mutant mouse'

... avoidance learning, a form of memory dependent on the hippocampus. The research group concluded that the mutant mouse could not form memories and did not remember the events that had just happened. ...

... Nakamura and Zbigniew Struzik) and Osaka Bioscience Institute (Toru Takumi). The lifestyle of the mouse has been monitored in a way comparable with that of monitoring humans. Every move of the animal ...

... diminished olfactory perception, as both normal and mutant mice located missing pups with equal ... minutes before dispersing them. In this case, the mutant mouse retrieved pups as quickly as the normal ...

... that problem, Xu and the scientists managed to create mouse mutants in which the long BDNF mRNA variant ... immature dendritic spines. "What we see in our mutant mouse and in Fragile X is similar," he ...

... few years ago, the scientists discovered a mutant mouse they called "woodrat" whose coat ... survive past the embryo stage. The woodrat mouse, in fact, has a crippled but not entirely worthless version ...

... to die. Jamora said he initially suspected that the reason for the unusually thick-skinned mutant mouse was that the lack of caspase 8 in the epidermis was somehow interfering with the "death ...

... percent to 15 percent had spina bifida and exencephaly, similar to anencephaly in humans." Some of the mutant mouse embryos had kyphoscoliosis or other skeletal deformities. That led the team to ...

... method in which systemic administration of an otherwise inert chemical to a mutant mouse selectively activates a single group of neurons," said James McNamara, M.D., chairman of the Duke ...

... cells -- called basal and apical progenitors -- throughout early brain development in a mutant mouse with the same genetic deletion. They found that the basal progenitors divided more slowly than they ...